2011 Battle of the Bands

Last year Southville International School and Colleges held its very first SGEN Battle of the Bands. There a lot of bands joined the competition, 13 all in all, so you can imagine how long the battle was. I'm also part of the band that joined the competition.

Stringless band, originally is composed of 5 members i was the drummer before kevin was the bassist and JM still in lead guitar. 1 of us graduated already, our vocalist Pat so we need to replace her and our rhythm guitarist before was Keenee, she stopped school so Me, Kevin and JM are left. We recruited new members in our band and now our band is composed of 6 members Christian our drummer, Mike our keyboardist, Matthew in rhythm guitar, JM in lead guitar, Kevin our vocalist and me the bassist of our band. We first held our auditions last year of october, and we played Stars by Callialily and Mr. Clay by Bamboo. Out of the 13 bands that got in, our band got the attention of the judges, im not sure why but yeah we got in the competition. December 1, 2011 the actual battle, our band was 2nd to perform and my other member are nervous that's why i felt kinda nervous as well because of them. We sang Frailty by Urbandub and Mr Clay by Bamboo, but we didn't just play the song, we change some parts of our song and played our own version of the songs. Maybe that's what got the attention of the judges, because of our originality. So while we were playing Frailty which is our 1st song, the power was cut and we can't hear our instruments, even the microphone was cut but the only thing that still has an electricity were the drum mics. After how many minutes the power was fixed and played the songs again til the end. So after our performance some of my bandmates thought it was a set up because we all know that we have the judges eyes on us. But we're not sure until the show ended and we got 2nd runner up only, but its ok for because i thought we wouldn't get any place because our band was the only band the had a power cut. So because of that we thought we're robbed and until now we still think that we're robbed but we already moved on. LOL

So out of 13 bands we got 3rd place and its better than have nothing right? This coming SGEN battle of the bands 2012 our band was invited to have an intermission number. We want to join again but we can't because already won last year and they want us to perform to represent the bands that performed, and won last year.